Sunday, April 14, 2013

More Progress


We now have a sensor that talks to a microcontroller!

Yellow=sensor output (200mV/div)
Green=ROG (TTL, Basically starts the sensor reading when low)
Blue=Clock(TTL, makes the sensor spit out a value on the output for each pixel sequentially)

The first image shows the 33 dummy pixels. The second image(IMGP2879) shows the entire sensor output. The large blip is due to the light from a piece of black card with a small hole punched in it, and shows that the addressing is working correctly. Due to the slowness of Arduinos, the integration time is still way too large, and the sensor reading clips. This won't be an issue once we move to the ARM processor, which is a good order of magnitude faster.